Re: Standby on Same box

  • From: Jared Still <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: cjnewman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 09:19:53 -0800

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 6:33 AM, Newman, Christopher
<cjnewman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> By the way; one poster noted that by implementing a delay, one could avoid
> data corruption.  Has anyone actually used this to good effect?  My
> impression of this option is that you have to be "Johnny on the Spot" to
> stop the apply in time, and it lengthens your recovery time.  Real time
> apply is the way to go at any rate.
>

Carel-Jan Engel has used this to great effect.

I seem to recall he saved a client a great deal of time, effort and of
course
money by having a delay.

He used to participate on this list, and is *the* DG expert IMO.

Jared Still
Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist

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